Alexander Efimovich Schwartzman (also Alex Schwartzman ; born April 16, 1935 ) is an Israeli, formerly Moldovan draftsman. Ten-time Moldavian champion in Russian drafts and 31-time champion of Israel in Russian , international and Brazilian drafts.
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USSR master of sports in drafts (1959), international master in Brazilian drafts (1990), FMJD master in hundred-cell drafts, Israeli national grandmaster. Candidate for USSR Master of Sports in Chess (1952).
He began drafts at the Tiraspol House of Pioneers and Schoolchildren under the direction of Pavel Savin. Pupil of the founder of the Tiraspol children's and youth drafts school Aron Mikhailovich Dubovoy [1] . In 1949, at the age of fourteen, he became the winner of the Moldavian Championship among men. In 1952, as a member of the national team of Moldova, he won first place in the first USSR team championship among young men in Rostov-on-Don . In 1958 he graduated from the Odessa Institute of Refrigeration Industry , worked as a process engineer at the Elektromash plant in Tiraspol, then at the Elektropribor plant in Chisinau (1959-1973). In 1959, he took third place in the USSR team championship (A. Schwartzman, I. Kacherov, V. Krivoruk, L. Benderskaya ).
Since 1973 in Israel, he worked as a mechanic in the Navy [2] . He resumed participation in drafts tournaments only in 1983 [3] .
AE Shvartsman is also a prize-winner of the Israeli championships in Brazilian drafts and triathlon (international, Russian and Brazilian drafts) in individual and team events, a participant in three finals of the USSR championships and seven USSR team championships, a silver medalist of the first championship of the DSS trade unions, champion Israel among veterans. He became the champion of Israel in Russian drafts, in blitz in Russian drafts, in Brazilian drafts and in international drafts (2002, the absolute champion of the country this year). Participant in the finals of the world championships. Lives in Haifa .
He is the author of the books “The Joy of Victories and the Bitterness of Losses” (M .: String, 2004), “The Path to the Peaks” ( Omsk , 2006) [4] .
The sons of A. E. Shvartsman also became drafts players: Igor (born 1960) - master of the FMJD, finalist of the second world championship in Brazilian drafts (1987); Gennady (born 1962) - winner of the Israeli Youth Championship (1980).